Four Foods To Ditch Right Now

There are a plethora of nasties out there being marketed to us left,
right and center in snack foods, processed foods, condiments, frozen
meals, convenience foods and drinks and more. It's harder today to find
something that doesn't contain a nasty ingredient than it is to
find one that does. In fact, I'd estimate that 99% of foods that come
in a package will contain something that with repeated intake will
affect your health.

If you want to experience the best health you
possibly can, here's four "foods" you should ditch
immediately. You will likely experience the benefit within days and
certainly within weeks with a clearer head, more energy, more even moods
and better skin tone.

1. Trans Fats

Take
what seems to be a relatively benign liquid plant fat and process it
into a solid fat and you have a health damaging trans fat. In addition
to promoting cancer, trans fats raise your LDL (bad) cholesterol. Trans
fats also occur naturally in beef, lamb and full-fat dairy products but
the most common and harmful are the heavily processed vegetable oils
found in most packaged products today. The foods that most commonly
include trans fats are fried foods, margarine, fast foods, frozen meals,
packaged snacks, crackers, cookies, doughnuts, muffins, pies, cakes,
and processed meat products.

2. High Fructose Corn Syrup and White Sugar

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If
you have been educating yourself in healthy eating for a while now
you've probably heard of the damaging effects of high fructose corn
syrup and white sugar. While these are two different foods, they are
worthy of including here together as they both are highly addictive
sweeteners, appear in the ingredient list of the majority of packaged
foods, contribute to weight gain and obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular
disease and many more health conditions. I am a big believer that if a
food is as extremely addictive and triggers such intense cravings as
white sugar and high fructose corn syrup do, then it is far better left
out of your diet! Instead focus on healthier natural sweeteners like
fresh and dried dates, dried fruits, fresh fruit, raw honey, pure maple
syrup, coconut sugar and stevia.

3. MSG (Monosodium Glutamate)

You
might know it as the concentrated salt flavor enhancer often used in
Chinese food, but MSG is now used in a huge amount of processed food
products available on our supermarket shelves and beyond. And while you
might have been on the lookout for MSG in ingredient lists, you might
not know that due to MSG's link to severe migraines, companies have been
using different names for MSG in their labels to hide that it is
included. Names like autolyzed yeast, yeast extract, maltodextrin,
hydrolyzed protein, sodium caseinate, mono-potassium glutamate, and
textured protein. MSG not only causes headaches and migraines, but is
linked to impaired liver and gallbladder function, digestive issues,
autism and more. Scary stuff indeed and one to start avoiding right
away! You can find MSG most often in foods like crisps and corn chips,
packaged soups, salad dressings, deli meats, sauces, powdered flavor and
seasonings packets and more.

4. Tap Water

Tap
water today is not what it was 40 years ago, even 5 years ago. With
each year that passes, more pollution and higher population, our tap
water becomes even more toxic. Each time you have a tall glass from the
faucet you can expect to ingest toxic heavy metals, chlorine, fluoride,
pesticides, fungicides and many more nasties. If you are drinking a
large amount of water each day to stay hydrated but you are putting in
all these chemicals too....well, over time they will accumulate and
health problems will arise. Switch to purified water and ideally spring
water. Check out findaspring.com
to find a spring local to you. There are some countries around the
world where the tap water is still relatively pure, however these are
few and far between so I recommend doing your research before making a
decision as to what water you are happy to drink.

Take
these four out of your diet right away and you will be immediately
giving your body less toxic load to deal with and helping to improve
your health and happiness.

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